JOHN STUART MILL’S UTILITARIANISM: A PANACEA TO NIGERIA’S SOCIO-POLITICAL QUAGMIRE
JOHN STUART MILL’S UTILITARIANISM: A PANACEA TO NIGERIA’S SOCIO-POLITICAL QUAGMIRE

Summary/Abstract: Nigeria, the giant of Africa and the world’s most populous black country, though blessed with abundant human and material resources, is yet to be reckoned among the comity of nations because of its numerous social and political problems. This work identifies the root causes of these problems to include selfishness, corruption, injustice, greed, tribalism, nepotism, bad leadership, etc. The work argued that J.S. Mill’s utilitarian project which advocates that every individual, group or government action should be geared towards the provision of the greatest happiness to the greatest number of citizens should be applied to the Nigerian redemption procedure. The work also addressed how the minority tribes in Nigeria can conveniently be incorporated by this principle and thus concludes that if Mill’s utilitarianism is used to lay the socio-ethical foundation of the project of Nigeria’s social and political reform, the country will surely know justice and rise to greatness.

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